The Register-Star article, full of celebratory quotes from Habitat board members and elected officials, talks about Habitat's "quest to reduce the number of vacant lots, which they say discourage pedestrian traffic and challenged neighborhood security." That's an axiom of urban planning that gets applied selectively here in Hudson (consider, for example, the 300 block of Columbia Street and its sea of parking lots), and one that certainly isn't relevant here. This was not a vacant lot. It was a community garden.
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